On this week’s podcast, I had the privilege of speaking with Geoff
Shullenberger. Geoff is a teacher at NYU and an accomplished author and thinker.
He is one of the world’s leading experts on the work on Rene Girard. We had a
far-ranging discussion covering:
 * What is the new right? What does conservatism mean now?
 * Ayn Rand as the intellectual ancestor of everyone on the “new right”.
 * The David Pogue article in Vanity Fair – it’s a very important piece
   [https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right-where-peter-thiel-is-placing-his-biggest-bets].
 * JD Vance and compassionate individualism
 * Christopher Rufo and his anti-CRT crusade
 * Anti-partisanship
 * The firing of Felicia Sonmez at the Washington Post
 * Elite Overproduction – is there such a thing and is this theory credible?
 * The myth of scarcity
 * Rene Girard, mimicry, social contagion, and transgender kids
 * And much more

I highly recommend listening to the whole thing, I learned a lot from Geoff and
I think he is a great intellectual.
You can find Geoff’s writing on his blog Outsider Theory
[https://outsidertheory.com/] and in Compact Magazine
[https://compactmag.com/columnist/geoff-shullenberger] as well as on Twitter
[https://twitter.com/daily_barbarian?s=20&t=Q-8T0OuUJ6aYCxekhtGdzg].
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The New Right with Geoff Shullenberger

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